Poker Players Database

John Juanda
Andy Black
Erik Seidel
Victoria Coren
Eddy Scharf
Gavin Smith
David Benyamine
Roland de Wolfe
John Cernuto
Joanne Liu
Annette Obrestad
Howard Lederer
Chris Ferguson
Lee Watkinson
Tom Dwan
Vanessa Selbst
Jennifer Harman

Poker Players

Poker Players become well known for many reasons. Maybe they have won a major tournament, appeared on televised poker shows, are authors of well read poker books, are legends of poker that have told us many a tale of times gone by or just a darn good player that has earned the respect of their peers in the poker community.

We have researched and interviewed popular players and collated data on their poker career. The result being our Poker Players Database containing detailed written profiles of the poker player and their life stories together with the stats behind their poker career

Find out where your favourite player ranks in one of our top lists, from the Top Earning Players to WSOP Bracelet Winners. Alternatively just search through our A-Z listing of all Player Profiles to discover things you never knew about the players we see at the poker tables.

Player Profiles

Norway Annette Obrestad – Humiliating Opponents as a 15 year old Girl
Annette Obrestad earned her fearsome reputation after humiliating opponents by beating them whilst she was still underage at the young age of just 15. [more...]

USA Jeff Madsen – Exploded into Poker Winning $1.4m at his First WSOP
Jeff Madsen borrowed money from his college fund and his Parents to go to the 2006 World Series of Poker. He came away with 2 Bracelets and $1.4million [more...]

Germany Eddy Scharf – Airline Pilot Flying High at the Poker Tables
Eddie "Eddy" Scharf is a commercial airline pilot who is also one of the most experienced poker players in Germany with 2 WSOP bracelets to his name. [more...]

USA Erica Schoenberg – A Life Destined Towards Gambling
Erica Schoenberg grew up in a family centered around Gambling and joined in as soon as she was old enough to understand. Known as BlackJack Babe for her love of Blackjack. [more...]

USA Tom ‘Durrrr’ Dwan – Possibly the Greatest Online Poker Player ever?
With his current winning record, Tom 'durrr' Dwan is recognised as a modern poker genius. But is he the greatest ever Online Poker Player? [more...]

USA Phil Gordon – dot com Millionaire, Poker TV Celeb and FullTilt Suckout
Phil Gordon is one of the most recognizable TV faces from the poker world. Former part owner of Full Tilt Poker, Black Friday was a dark period of his life [more...]